Megan

Wow! What an amazing resource for musical inspiration. Your podcast is such a pleasure to listen to while I fold laundry. I anxiously look forward to the notes afterward like a dessert. I just selfishly wish there were a more weekly issue to be inspired by for the next week’s curriculum. You both are so inspiring and a joy to listen. Please stay healthy and inspired. Looking forward to your next installment.

I wish we could pull our lives together better to do weekly again…but right now that’s just not possible. But that doesn’t mean that we won’t eventually get back there again! We are just taking it day by day! Good to hear that you want to hear more from us, though! 🙂

I love your podcast, and I was waiting – PATIENTLY lol – for a new episode, and when this one came out, I was like, bleh, music enrichment. Great, yeah, composer study, I got it.

BOY WAS I WRONG! So glad I finally got around to listening to it because you two really opened my eyes not only to new ways to use music, but to the ways we use music already but I just hadn’t thought about it as being an enrichment exercise.

Great links and resources for this episode. Thanks so much for all the hard work that went into it. I will never doubt you again!

LOL, Georgiaberry! You made my day! I love reading comments like this!!

That’s exactly how I’ve always felt about music study…WHY do they only cover classical when there’s such a hugely diverse array of music available out there, even across the centuries!! Fascinating stuff! Glad we could help open your eyes!!
And you know what you just made me think of something!!! Because I recognize your name from the Amazing Race Facebook group…I’m going to take my kids to the library today and get country music for the countries we’ve been to with the race!!! FUN!!

Elly Phillips

Thanks for the recommendation of ‘Here comes science’ by They Might be Giants. I found it at our library and borrowed it. There were enough familiar and beloved topics to catch my son’s imagination (dinosaurs and space) and now he’s started singing about the elements and the ‘blood mobile’ , too. I really liked the ‘why does the sun shine’. It’s a shame the first version is wrong, as I can’t imagine a better line that ‘the sun is a mass of incandescent gas’!

Mary S

I know this is way late, but I just had to add Symphony of Science to your list of educational songs. Older kids will get the most out of them, but even my preschoolers like watching the videos. You can find them at symphonyofscience.com or on YouTube.

Great show! I just wanted to add one more – mostly for the younger crows – Barenaked Ladies – Snack Time. They have some really fun songs & lyrics…

“Crazy ABCs” is cute – “A is for aisle, B is for bdellium, C is for czar
And if you see him would you mind telling him?

Okay, hang on a second, yeah aisle, bdellium?
Yeah, aisle like a, like a theater, alright, okay and bdellium?
Bdellium, it’s a gum like tree resin, it starts with a silent B
And then czar? Yeah, it’s uh like a Russian czar

You know everybody knows apple, ball and cat
I wanted to get into some, you know some stranger words
Right, I see what you’re doing…”

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